The coiner of the model, queercrip writer/artist Petra Kuppers, uses it to look at disability not as a static experience/set of relationships, but instead an ever-changing mosaic of relations-in-progress. for example, there is no static, pre-existing "disabled community" or "disability identity" one gains a pass into at a certain point, or has a set of instructions to perform. instead, disability lives & comes alive in the ways we move/care/live together, and what we understand as disability exists only in the contexts of our relationships.
because the ways our bodyminds touch are ever-shifting, so is disability: imagine our collective crip subjectivity as a ceaseless slide we're tumbling down together, jostling each other, finding new language to describe, but never quite finishing. this collective and ever-changing landscape is what deleuze and guattari (whose concept of "rhizome" she's drawing from) would call an assemblage.
one major implication of this for Kuppers and for me is that disability is an inherently intersubjective experience. it isn't "individual," even if it appears to be local to a certain bodymind. we are all, to go deeper into deleuzian (de?)territory (lmao), perpetually becoming-disabled. in doing so, we constitute what disability "is" –– iterating disability as a concept into existence.
if this sounds abstract and difficult to pin down - congrats! that's the goal & philosophical upshot of deleuzoguattarian theory. chew on it, swish it around, enjoy the flavor. also, if you want to read Kuppers's whole article on this, i put it on my google drive. it's also available free on academia.edu.
An expansive volume presenting crip approaches to writing, research, and publishing. Crip Authorship: Disability as Method is an expansive
Open Access
Introduction: On Crip Authorship and Disability as Method. Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez
Section I: Writing
1.Writing While Adjunct. Mimi Khúc.
2. Chronic Illness, Slowness, and the Time of Writing. Mel Y. Chen.
3. Composing Perseveration / Perseverative Composing. M. Remi Yergeau.
4. Mad Black Rants. La Marr Jurelle Bruce.
5. Plain Language for Disability Culture. Kelsie Acton.
6. Peter Pan World: In-System Authorship. Isolation Nation.
7. LatDisCrit and Counterstories. Alexis Padilla.
Section II: Research
8. Virtual Ethnography. Emily Lim Rogers.
9. Learning Disability Justice Through Critical Participatory Action Research. Laura J. Wernick.
10. Decolonial Disability Studies. Xuan Thuy Nguyen.
11. On Still Reading Like a Depressed Transsexual. Cameron Awkward-Rich.
12. On Trauma in Research on Illness, Disability, and Care. Laura Mauldin.
13. Injury, Recovery, and Representation in Shikaakwa. Laurence Ralph.
14. Collaborative Research on the Möbius Strip. Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp.
15. Lessons in Yielding: Crip Refusal and Ethical Research Praxis. Zoë H. Wool.
16. Creating a Fully Accessible Digital Helen Keller Archive. Helen Selsdon.
Section III: Genre
17. Manifesting Manifestos. Alison Kafer.
18. Public Scholarship as Disability Justice. Jaipreet Virdi.
19. Crip Autotheory. Ellen Samuels.
20. Disability Life Writing in India. Mohaiminul Islam and Ujjwal Jana.
21. The History and Politics of Krip-Hop. Leroy F. Moore, Jr. and Keith Jones.
22. Verbal and Nonverbal Metaphor. Asa Ito.
Section IV: Publishing
23. Accessible Academic Publishing. Cynthia Wu.
24. #DisabilityStudiesTooWhite. Kristen Bowen, Rachel Kuo, and Mara Mills.
25. A Philosophical Analysis of ASL/English Bilingual Publishing. Teresa Blankmeyer Burke.
26. Crip World-Making. Robert McRuer.
27. Disability in the Library and Librarianship. Stephanie S. Rosen.
28. The Rebuttal: A Protactile Poem. John Lee Clark.
Section V: Media
29. Crip Making. Aimi Hamraie.
30. Fiction Podcasts Model Description by Design. Georgina Kleege.
31. Podcasting for Disability Justice. Bri M.
32. Willful Dictionaries and Crip Authorship in CART. Louise Hickman.
33. How to Model AAC. Lateef H. McLeod.
34. Digital Spaces and the Right to Information for Deaf People During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Zimbabwe. Lovemore Chidemo, Agness Chindimba, and Onai Hara.
35. Crip Indigenous Storytelling Across the Digital Divide. Jen Deerinwater.
one of the most boring lessons I’ve learned is that when a task feels overwhelming, you just have to start doing it. Even if you’re not sure how to do 90% of it, look for one small component that seems close and start there. Sometimes it’s reading one article on the topic, or searching one related term, or literally just googling how to do the task. Do anything other than thinking about it. The process of working on a thing inherently makes it less scary.
finally updated my "about me" to reflect graduating college this past May! and i'm also gonna try to use this blog more... please like/reblog/follow if you're a studyblr or writing blog!!!
references for reading and studying the hebrew bible (named the old testament for some, the tanakh for others)—
biblegateway makes available most translations. ethical, responsible versions used in academia include the nrsvue (here with commentary) and the jps (here, on sefaria, with hebrew notations). software like accordance is helpful for those familiar with languages.
on languages—here is more on learning biblical hebrew. here are my recs on hittite, sumerian, akkadian (huehnergard, caplice), ugaritic, and aramaic.
holding the narrative alongside introductory material is meaningful—here is a list of many, and here is the book assigned in most syllabi.
finally, oxford offers entries on heuristics and methods that might help move religious study further in meaning. here are recs for my method
